Homejoy

Homejoy, the U.S. domestic cleaning startup that’s backed by the likes of Google Ventures to the tune of $38 million, is putting another of its international operations on hold. Following news earlier today that its Canada-based business is being “paused”, TechCrunch has learned that Homejoy’s activities in France have been met with the same fate. Read More

Home cleaning startup Homejoy plans to halt operations in Canada within a couple of weeks, though the company says this is only temporary.
We were recently tipped off about the move, and a spokesperson confirmed it, saying that Homejoy will be focusing on growth in other markets for now. It has been expanding across Europe throughout this year. Read More

In its first big move beyond home cleaning, Homejoy is adding carpet cleaning and general handyman services to its offerings in the Bay Area.
Co-founder and CEO Adora Cheung (pictured above with her brother and co-founder Aaron) has been hinting at this for the past year, including last week at Disrupt Europe. Over the summer, Homejoy invited customers to beta test a number of different… Read More

Homejoy has been providing cleaning services over the last few years, but it’s hoping to expand into several other verticals. Today at TechCrunch Disrupt Europe, co-founder and CEO Adora Cheung said the company would continue to test out other services in its different markets. Read More

Adora Cheung, co-founder and CEO of home-cleaning startup Homejoy, will be joining us onstage at Disrupt Europe.
The company makes it easy to schedule home cleanings online and at a relatively affordable price. In the two years since I first wrote about the service (originally called Pathjoy), Homejoy has raised a big pile of money, expanded across the US and overseas, and just last month… Read More

Two years after Homejoy first launched its home cleaning service, the startup is releasing an iPhone app — its first native experience for smartphones.
It seems a little crazy for a current-day, consumer-facing startup to wait that long to build a real presence on mobile, particularly when you’re talking about a company as well-funded as Homejoy. Read More

When Homejoy raised its $38 million round of funding last December, the company did so with a plan to move beyond just offering cleaning services to its customers. It’s starting to make good on that plan, with the launch of a beta test for other home services.
In an email sent out to some Homejoy users (text below), the company invites customers to book and try out some of the new… Read More

Airbnb’s cleaning trial began in San Francisco, and over time expanded to New York and Los Angeles. Those were three markets that both Homejoy and Handybook operated in. Now, Handybook will handle cleanings in all of them. Read More

Homejoy just announced its first acquisition — New York-based “Uber for maids” startup Get Maid.
Both Get Maid and Homejoy announced their cleaning services towards the end of 2012. They have a slightly different emphasis — Get Maid is more focused on immediate service, promising users that the maids will arrive within two hours of their order, while Homejoy… Read More

The UK home cleaning market continues to lather up. Hot on the heels of Hassle.com’s $6 million fund-raise from Accel Partners, local rival Housekeep is announcing it’s closed a $1 million investment led by Pentland Group (majority owner of JD Sports and numerous other major brands). Read More

Home cleaning startup Hassle.com has closed a $6 million Series A from Accel Partners. Money it plans to use to expand across major cities in the UK — beyond London and Manchester — and Europe. Read More

Homejoy offers its home cleaning services in more than 30 North American markets, but it managed to expand without opening any offices outside of its San Francisco headquarters — until January, when it opened an office in New York City’s financial district.
It’s been almost exactly a year since Homejoy launched its services in the Big Apple, following the same system it has… Read More

Homejoy, a startup that makes it easy and relatively affordable ($20 an hour) to sign up for a home cleaning, is announcing that it has raised $38 million in new funding.
The money was actually raised across two rounds — a Series A led by Google Ventures and a Series B led by Redpoint Ventures. The rounds were raised within “a couple months of each other,” said co-founder and… Read More

If I were ranking startups based on how much I value their services, Homejoy would place pretty darn near the top — every month or so, one of their cleaners comes by my apartment and in two or three hours it becomes more sparkly than I’ve ever been able to make it. All for just 20 bucks an hour.
Homejoy’s been growing quickly, too — it raised $1.7 million in seed… Read More

As startups compete for the best talent, Homejoy is announcing a way for companies to offer employees an additional perk — a clean home.
Home cleanings may not be a standard perk yet, but they’re not an entirely new idea, either. Last fall, The New York Times wrote that in Silicon Valley, “the employee perk is moving from the office to the home,” with both Evernote and… Read More

Pathjoy, a Y Combinator-incubated startup that makes it easy and affordable to have your home cleaned, is announcing that it has raised $1.7 million in seed funding. It’s taking on a new name that sounds like a better fit for its mission — goodbye Pathjoy, hello Homejoy.
The funding came from Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, Mike Hirshland/Resolute.VC, Max Levchin… Read More